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Zbyszewska, Ania (2016) Active aging through employment : a critical feminist perspective on Polish policy. International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations, 32 (4). pp. 449-472.
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Abstract
Age has become a crucial factor in labour market regulation measures undertaken in Poland in the last several years. Inspired by Europe 2020 strategy of ‘smart, sustainable and inclusive growth’, Poland’s own long-term development plans, especially those adopted by the former Civic Platform-led administration, feature significant emphasis on extended working lives as essential to economic sustainability. Given low employment rates among Poland’s older age cohorts, and the shortfall between the actual and statutory age of retirement, many of the country’s active aging measures have focused primarily on employment activation of workers above the age 50. The policy mix of supply-side activation techniques and demand-side incentives, combined with pension system reforms, have been the key measures designed to encourage longer working lives. Yet, to what extent are these measures achievable and adequate? Using a feminist, socio-legal perspective, this paper critically evaluates Poland’s active aging policy and reforms by locating them at intersection of the transformation and re-structuring of the Polish welfare state and the re-regulation of the country’s labour market according to neoliberal proscriptions. Two key points of interest – or sources of tension – are identified: the extent to which the efforts to bolster older people’s employment participation take adequate notice of labour market conditions and the roles that older people play in the provision of care and other activities involved in maintenance of living standards. As the paper shows, the potentially negative consequences of this policy trajectory for older people’s wellbeing in and out of the labour market, and for the organization of care and the broader processes of social reproduction, have tended to be downplayed in policy and legal reform, while being potentially exacerbated by them.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor | ||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Older people -- Employment -- Poland, Labor market -- Government policy -- Poland, Public welfare -- Government policy -- Poland, European Union countries -- 21st century | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations | ||||||
| Publisher: | Kluwer Law International | ||||||
| ISSN: | 0952-617X | ||||||
| Official Date: | 2016 | ||||||
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| Date of first compliant deposit: | 20 September 2016 | ||||||
| Volume: | 32 | ||||||
| Number: | 4 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 449-472 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
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